PATCH #1

Hi Chefs, After a series of hotfixes, It's time for the PATCH #1. This one focuses on fixing some of the issues, improving clarity, and cleaning up a lot of smaller things across the game. As always, thank you for all the reports and feedback. It’s been a big help in figuring out what needed attention first.

UI & Quality of Life

We’ve made a few changes to make things clearer, especially around dish evaluation:

• Added an extra button in the dish rating screen so it’s more obvious that you can open the detailed breakdown

• Dish rating tiles now change color depending on the result → inedible dishes will now clearly show as red

• Reworked how the progress bar works so it’s more consistent visually

• Cleaned up and unified the texts in the dish evaluation screen

• Replaced the infinity symbol in text with a proper icon

Gameplay & Systems

• Fixed mixtures resetting after kitchen upgrades → bottles and mixtures should now keep their contents properly

• Fixed issues with placing boxed ingredients on surfaces → this includes items like milk, stocks, passata, cream and similar

• Fixed a bug that could cause ingredients to process way too fast → this could also lead to strange results with flavors and soup colors

• Fixed the “Raw” tag appearing incorrectly on plated mixtures

• Fixed chef belt slots not unlocking properly after kitchen upgrades

• Adjusted fridge placement areas so items no longer appear to float

Sandbox / Relax Mode Updates

Some features previously available in sandbox/relax mode have been expanded and improved:

• New sandbox options: → Infinite time to complete orders → Infinite duration of the day phase

• Added the ability to skip phases at any time → You can now move to the next phase even in the middle of the current one → This option is also available in career mode

• Added Extreme mode option → Keeps the restaurant constantly full for a more intense experience

Fixes & Technical

• Fixed repair tab not opening in some cases

• Fixed the wall fire extinguishing system

• Fixed issue with refreshing the progression panel in the player’s apartment

• Fixed an issue where disconnecting a controller during the day summary allowed access to settings, save, or load, and returning would incorrectly resume gameplay instead of the summary, causing a blocker

• Fixed incorrect evaluation of seasoning amounts in dishes containing mixtures (e.g. salads) → This issue could also affect other values, but was mainly visible in the UI

• Fixed incorrect thermal visualization for dishes containing deformable ingredients

• Cleaned up a number of unnecessary memory allocations

• General stability improvements

• Additional fixes to animations and interactions

Visual Changes

• Updated some product icons to better match their models (for example spring onion and romaine lettuce)

• Fixed naming issues across a number of ingredient spawners

• Cleaned up naming and consistency across many items (cheeses, meats, spices, vegetables, etc.)

• Improved visuals for processing actions like blending, mixing, coating and mashing → added a wooden board icon and adjusted positioning

Recipe Adjustments

We’ve gone through a number of recipes that were causing confusion or incorrect ratings:

• Fried Egg with Potatoes → removed the requirement to serve water after boiling potatoes

• Currywurst → simplified the recipe and fixed incorrect evaluation

• Pork Ribs → improved how seasoning works

• Yellow Curry → fixed cases where the dish was marked as inedible → reworked the recipe and added blending

• Green Curry → same issue as above, now fixed and updated

• Rye Soup → adjusted processing time

• Pepper Cream Soup → changed the order of adding ingredients

• Potato